Comments on: Reference Question of the Week – 2/10/13http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2013/02/16/reference-question-of-the-week-21013/
or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference DeskSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:58:22 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2By: Kerrihttp://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2013/02/16/reference-question-of-the-week-21013/#comment-21180
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:52:01 +0000http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=4035#comment-21180The SearchReSearch blog had a great post that discussed ways to use Google image search to find a book based on what the cover looks like. http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2011/05/answer-how-can-you-find-book-by-its.html
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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:01:56 +0000http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=4035#comment-20346I’ve also used google image search and limited by color to find books — works well if you know the main color of the book cover.
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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 03:52:15 +0000http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=4035#comment-20311Regarding the thumbnail size in your catalog; your systems admin might be able to make that thumbnail bigger. I don’t know what ILS you use but many of them have options for things like that. Or, you might check with your content provider. They may have that option as well.
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Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:24:28 +0000http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=4035#comment-20305I did a Google Image search for

“children’s book” girl with duck cover

and limited it to the past six months (clicked on “Search Tools” and entered a start term of six months ago with no ending term). The result was in the first two rows. As mentioned above, if the book cover color is known as well, this might also be a great limiter on Google Image Search, although it didn’t help in this particular search due to its removing the book in question from a high search result placement.

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Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:14:25 +0000http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=4035#comment-20303I’ve had decent luck answering “what was the book?” cover description reference questions by using: http://bigbooksearch.com/. Your book in question comes up as the 11th result in a search using the same terms of “girl duck.” The covers link back to Amazon.
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Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:48:09 +0000http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=4035#comment-20301@Heather: good catch – I never actually clicked into the record (since we immediate searched for the title in the library catalog to see if it was on our shelf), so thank you for clearing that up.

@Michelle: I thought that must be a possibility, but I’ve never tried it – now I’ll give it a shot.

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Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:18:52 +0000http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=4035#comment-20299The advanced search for Google Images has a filter for the predominant color of the image. I’ve had some luck locating book covers this way, if the patron remembers the main color of the book.
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Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:58:06 +0000http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=4035#comment-20298Hi Brian, interesting post. Amazon has the pub. date as Sept. 2013 because that is when the paperback apparently is due to come out — if you notice, it’s available for pre-order. The hardcover is already out.
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